Hyperscale Networking For All - Chapter 2The latest developments come just one year after Big Switch introduced its vision to make hyperscale-style networking accessible to all organizations. Through an external SDN controller, advanced fabric design and open networking (bare metal) hardware, Big Switch's SDN solutions accelerate network transformations in mainstream enterprise and carrier data centers. Organizations can now deploy next-generation networks that deliver the benefits of centralized management, network automation and reduced CapEx with open networking switch economics.

ACG Research recently completed an economic analysis comparing the deployment of Big Cloud Fabric to the most commonly encountered alternative found in data center networking as the present mode of operation. The CapEx and OpEx benefits of a next generation SDN fabric are immediate and ongoing. Big Cloud Fabric accelerates new application deployment by 75%, is 12x more efficient in diagnosing and troubleshooting network issues, and lowers overall cost of operations -- both CapEx and OpEx -- by over 50%*.

"Big Switch is committed to disrupting the status quo of box by box networking, both architecturally and commercially," said Douglas Murray, CEO, Big Switch Networks. "We have spent the past year executing against this vision and today's announcement(s) represent the next steps in this journey."

BIG CLOUD FABRIC 3.0 Big Cloud Fabric™ is the industry's first SDN fabric to support open networking switches and deliver hyperscale-inspired innovation to SDN software. Advances in Big Cloud Fabric include deeper integration for both VMware and OpenStack environments which provide organizations with greater networking automation, resiliency, and simplicity.

In addition, Big Cloud Fabric 3.0 deepens its integration across multiple VMware products in support of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). This includes natively supporting advanced network automation and deep visibility for vSphere environments, now including vSphere 6; as well as support for VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO).

Support for scale-out and low cost monitoring services such as de-duplication and packet modification with an x86 service node, with the Big Monitoring Fabric controller acting as the single pane of glass for both monitoring fabric and service nodes for simplified operational experience

Support high density 100G switch at commodity economics to meet the massive bandwidth demands for monitoring carrier and cloud data centers

ELASTIC SDN PRICINGBig Switch first brought hyperscale networking architecture to customers, and introduces a hyperscale-inspired elastic pricing model to provide customers with flexibility, reduced cost and a pay-per-use consumption model for Hardware, Software and support. For the same CapEx amount used to purchase the SDN fabric -- physical switches, software and support -- customers can elect to receive twice the capacity with an "Elastic SDN Fabric" at no additional cost. For example, for the price of a 4 rack configuration, Big Switch would ship 8 racks of SDN fabric. The excess capacity of Elastic SDN Fabric is consumed on an as-utilized basis at $599/switch/month.

Big Switch's Elastic SDN Pricing model is an industry first and enables customers to spend CapEx for average utilization while enabling their future growth or temporary additional capacity on demand. Initially, Big Switch is offering Elastic SDN Pricing for Big Cloud Fabric in Small, Medium and Large configurations. The current Big Cloud Fabric pricing model and starter kits remain intact for standard configurations.

CUSTOMER ADOPTION AND MOMENTUMBig Switch recently announced global expansion and year-over-year growth of 365%. The company now has customer wins across the US, APAC and EMEA regions, in verticals that include financial services, government, telecom service providers, tech and higher education.

Customers include the U.S. Federal Government, Intuit, Clemson University, CleanSafeCloud, and U2 Cloud, a global software and cloud provider, 5 of the top 10 telcos in the world, a leading global credit card company, multiple global financial services firms, media companies, and a leading virtualization provider.

PARTNERSHIPSBig Switch has achieved significant momentum by focusing on providing differentiated SDN solutions that solve real-world challenges to network operators in VMware, OpenStack and network monitoring use cases. Key to this success has been our collaboration with VMware to bring open networking, network agility, automation and visibility to VMware environments.

Our partnership with Dell continues to deepen as we see increased interest and enterprise adoption of our next generation SDN solution on Dell open networking switches.

Partnerships with industry leaders Mirantis and Red Hat have produced innovation and resiliency for networking solutions for OpenStack deployments.

Big Switch is also partnering with SS8, Inc. to enable powerful and cost-effective communications analytics solutions through Big Monitoring Fabric interoperating with SS8's Communications Insight Platform. Through Big Switch scalable SDN fabrics, SS8 communications analytics are able to adapt and scale to the needs of enterprises and service providers dynamically and cost effectively.

THE FUTUREToday, Big Switch is delivering unique solutions for data center networking and will continue to bring innovation to enterprise networking in the future. There are many significant challenges ahead that Big Switch's SDN fabric architecture is poised to solve, including Docker container networking, multi-data center, and IoT. To see a technology demonstration of Big Cloud Fabric supporting Docker containers, visit here.

Big Switch will participate in Networking Field Day 10 on Aug. 19th at 12:30 pm PT. Presentation will include a live Q&A and solution demonstrations. Watch the livestream: http://techfieldday.com/event/nfd10/ and follow on social via #NFD10.

CleanSafeCloud"We have worked with Big Switch for several months to build out our networking infrastructure using a Big Cloud Fabric SDN starter kit," said Christian Sarrasin, CEO & Founder, CleanSafeCloud. "Initially, Big Switch was appealing because of the CapEx savings it offered and because their product, particularly in terms of OpenStack integration, fit right in our technology strategy. As we built out our infrastructure we were thrilled with the ease of set-up and the support we had from Big Switch each step of the way."

Clemson"It's a bold and forward-looking move for Clemson to adopt this new networking model in our data centers. We are following in the footsteps of the likes of Google, Facebook and others," said Daniel Schmiedt, Director of Network Services and Telecommunications at Clemson. "This is the first major production deployment of SDN for Clemson, Big Cloud Fabric is what we'll be using in the new pod architecture in our data center."

Dell"The Dell Open Networking strategy is all about giving the customer choices. Through our joint solutions with Big Switch Networks, we are providing our customers with the best options to fit their specific needs," said Adnan Bhutta, Director, Global Strategy, Dell Networking. "Through our work with Big Switch, our mission to bring next-generation open networking solutions to our customers is being realized."

IQT"Big Switch's enterprise-hardened SDN technology creates simplicity in the deployment and management of networks and provides flexibility to scale up to satisfy large and diverse workloads," said Greg Shipley, Senior Vice President, Mission Manager, In-Q-Tel. "We believe bare-metal infrastructure represents an opportunity for our government customers to run demanding data center networks at scale."

Mirantis"With our joint solution we are able to strip away complexity, and offer an easy-to-use, production-grade SDN solution," said Kamesh Pemmaraju, director of partner marketing, Mirantis. "Mirantis makes OpenStack reliable and easier to use, while Big Switch unlocks the power of SDN through a scalable, easy to deploy product. Now, we can offer a unified P+V fabric joint solution."

SS8"The broad performance needs and dynamism of our enterprise and service provider customers has been met through our partnership with Big Switch. Bringing SS8's Communications Analytics and Network Forensics technology with the flexibility and cost effectiveness of Big Switch has radically enabled service coverage that was nearly impossible before this partnership," said Faizel Lakhani Chief Operating Officer of SS8, Inc.

Big Switch Networks is the market leader in bringing hyperscale data center networking technologies to a mainstream data center audience. The company is taking three key hyperscale technologies -- OEM/ODM bare metal and open Ethernet switch hardware, sophisticated SDN control software, and core-and-pod data center designs -- and leveraging them in fit-for-purpose products designed for use in enterprises, cloud providers, and service providers. The company's Big Monitoring Fabric is a feature-rich solution to monitor existing networks, and Big Cloud Fabric is the industry's most advanced open networking switching fabric intended for new data center pods such as private cloud, big data, and VDI. For additional information, email info@bigswitch.com, follow @bigswitch, or visit www.bigswitch.com.